Improvement in animal-hoisting apparatus



J. NEWTON. ANIMAL HOISTING APPARATUS.

No. 111,671. Patented'Peb. 7, 1871.

JASON NEWTON, or 'MARENGO TOWNSHIP, MICHIGAN.

Letters-Patent No. 111,671, dated February 7, 1871.

IMPROVEMENT IN ANIMAL-HOISTING APPARATUS;

The Schedule referred to in these Letters Patent and making part of the same.

I, JASON NEWTON, of the township of Marongo, in the county of Calhoun and State of Michigan, have invented certain Improvements in Gallows and Derrick for facilitating the scalding, skinning, dressing, and weighing Animals, of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to the arrangement ot one or more long gallons-frames with a shorter and higher gallows, employed in combination with a winch, and with duplicate or triplicate sets of pulleys, so that the hoisting-rope may be transferred from one gallows to the other; said gallows-frames being so connected that the several parts composing them may be readily taken apart and reconstructed for portable use; the object of my said invention being to consolidate in one connected arrangement improved facilities to any required extent for the various consecutive manual operations to prepare animals, after they are killed, for cutting up for home use as food, or for the market.

The accompanying drawing represents my invention in perspective, of which the following is a General Description.

one wing can furnish, another wing may-he connected to the gallows A,as shown by B", who're the beams are shown as broken short oil, for want of room.

U are the gallows-posts, which are framed at the bottom into the center of the cross-sills 1), (detachably or permanently to support and steady the gallows side-wise.

a a b b represents the gallows-beam planks, arranged in pairs, which I. usually connect to the posts byinsorting the ends of said planks in dovetail-shouldcrcd gains, room being provided to drive in a stout wooden key fitted between the upper beveled shoulder of the gain and the top edge of the llOillll-l'llillllx", as seen at a '1, z.

Suliicicnt space should be left between the beamplanks for the hangidg ot' the hoisting-pulleys 1 l", and for the free passage between of the sliding gambrel-hooks H and the hoisting-hook a.

is the whirling-shalt or drum, carrying the hoisting-rope lt, said shaft being hung in suitable bearings attached to one of the postssnpporting the high gallows A, and furnished with a hand-crank, F, at one or both ends.

A ratchet, 0', andpawhp, hold the load in suspension at anylreqnired height.

P ar-e hoisting-pulleys, hung in mortises out through the high posts, as shown; and

H represents one of the sliding gambrel-hooks ready to receive the scraped hog 0, such hooks to range with the gallows, as seen, or to stand at a right angle, as may be preferred.

The cross-barj of the gambrel-hook may be mounted on flanged rollers and converted into a carriage to carry the animal along the gallows, if deemed best.

I will now proceed to describe the operation as applied to hogs,acc0rding .to my usual mode of manipulation; promising that such mode may be varied to suit existing circumstances, necessities, or tastes.

A platform, E, of any suitable kind may be placed on or sunk under the ground below the gallows A, to support the barrel Incontaining hot water.

The hoisting-rope E is rove from the winch-drum over the pulley 1 immediately above, and the dead hog, suspended to the hook or, is elevated and lowered,

by the operation of the winch, into and from the scald ing water, and, by the aid of the ratchet and pawl to hold the hog occasionally in a suitable elevation, it is scalded, scraped, and washed clean.

Wheat-his is accomplished, the. animal is lowered on a skid or plank, (not shown,) is unhooked, and hauled around the post under the gallows B.

The operator now detaches the hoisting-rope from the pulley 1, and passing the hook and rope through the mortise and over the pulleys P and I", as shown by dotted lines at the left, he hooks into the gan'ibrclstick or the scraped hog, and by aid of the winch elevates and transfers the animal from the hoisting to the gambrcl-hook H; when the rope is unhitched and returned to its first-described position, to elevate the next 110g for the scalding and scraping process.

While this is being done, another operator guts and dresses the hog on the gambrel-hook, weighs it by suspended steelyards, (not shown,) marks the weight, and runs it along the gallows B alongside its i'ellou s, to cool.

Should another gallows, B, be required to dress and suspend all the animals killed, the free end of the hoisting-rope may be transferred to it, in either of the modes indicated by the dotted lines at the right; and any deflection of the gallows-beams may be prevented by an occasional prop.

Swivel or fast pulleys may be attached at any convenient points in the frame, to aid in moving. the animals, and a brace or braces if deemed best; but the gallows, when well constructed and keyed up, will not require bracing, as it; is self-supporting, being loaded in a direct central line.

My arrangement of the higher and lower gall0\vs,'

under the operation of a single hoisting-winch, fills a eertuin wanb'at but little expense, and savesa va-sL amount of labor of a. very dirty amlotherwise disagreeable kind.

' I claim as 1nyinrenti0n- The higher and lower gallows-frames A and 1 (dc- Witncases:

MILES TOWNSEND, THEODORE TOWNSEND. 

